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About Robert Newell
Robert "Doc" Newell was an American politician and fur trapper in the Oregon Country. He was a frontier doctor in what would become the U.S. state of Oregon. A native of Ohio, he served in the Provisional Government of Oregon and later was a member of the Oregon State Legislature. The Newell House Museum, his reconstructed former home on the French Prairie in Champoeg, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Everything about Robert Newell →- Occupation
- explorer, politician
- Position held
- member of the Oregon House of Representatives
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- March 30, 1807
- Died
- November 1869